The Irish standard., 1887-08-06
LABOR AMI -AB:3RER,

LABOR Anil -AB:3RER,
The Chinese Knights in New York have
been transferred TO mixe1 Assem- blies.
BUTTE Cfrr, NJ. T., has five assemblies
with combined membership Of seven
hundred
| a VERMONT woolen manufacturer has
| just purchased 300, 600 pounds of wool In
| California.
The Troy IN. W Steel & Iron Company
| is testing lot of Venezuela iron ore in its
| new furnaces.
The Union Bridge Company, Of Buffalo,
has started on the $1,000, ,0oo bridge across
| the Ohio at Cairo.
AT Detroit twenty years ago, Lehigh sold
| at $40 per ton, Scranton sold at $16 and
Blossburg at sl4 50 per ton.
In Hoboken the silk mills are SO crowded
with machinery and operatives that more
space must be built or rented.
TWELVE feet four inches OF coal was
found in the test well that was sunk be.
tween Trim BILE and Jacksonville, Ill
A FRENCH labor agitator in New York
declares the French woridng-men are un.
alterably opposed to war with Germany.
QUITE number Of manufacturing con-
Germs are removing shingles and using
slate or some other incom bustible roofing
| material
The Canadian Knights are once more
! gaining in number. A successful cutlery
establishment has been started, and .
shoe shop is talked of.
No LRss than one hundred towns and
cities are now contracting for material
for gas, water Or electric-light appliances,
all of which helps the iron and iron pipe
| makers.
THE Knights Of Labor Homestead,
Building and Loan Association, has been
organizing at Toronto, Ont, aud the mem
bership will be confined to members of
the order.
DURING the first six months of this year
six OF the leading Western cities expended
twenty per cent more in building than
last year. Minneapolis shows All increase
Of seventy per cent
The largest pulp pump ever made is
now being completed in Appleton, Wis,
and linen works have been completed in
the same place, and filed with machinery
brought from Belfast, Ireland.
The busiest mechanics in the country
are builders of motive power for steam
| I1lu SlGCEElClGt. Ou0 ICW Olh COIl pcIuy
sold $3.50 horse power capacity in May
and June. ALI shops are oyersold.
WHILE boring we'll in Jetmore Kan,
recently, d forty-four inch vein of coal
was found. It is of splendid quality,
and is said to be harder than the general
run of soft COAL It was found 1S0 feet
under ground.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, has fifteen miles OF
electric railway, costing $l75 900. TIE en-
ployment of electric safety lamps is
strongly favored in England. Columbus,
o., will have three and one-haf mile
electric road The electrical supply houses
are very busy, and enlargements are in
progress.
A GALL has been issued FROM Reading,
Pa, for the organization OF State Fedora
tion of Trades, to be composed OF unions
and workingmen's organizations within
the State, its object being to strengthen
the National Federation and effect a COM
bination of the various unions not afaili.
ated with the K. Of l.
Largo bodies Of coal lands lying near
Collinsville, Ala, On Lookout and Sand
mountains, are being bought by repre-
sentatives of Nav York and London cap
italists, who represent that their develops
ment will commence On an Immense scale
as soon Us the purchase is completed.
The purchase will exceed 100, 900 acres,
and the outlay will he about s50o, 09a for
purchase money.
THE activity in the development of the
coal ndustry was never 80 great In the
Brazil Ind. district at this season Of the
year as it is now. New firms have fol-
lowed new roads until the capital invested
has been Increased BY perhaps $5O1, 600 Ia
the past year, while the State Mine In
spector will be able to show decided ad-
vance in tho yearly output In his annual
report three mont tbs hence.
TIN construction of houses fer employees
is now becoming as important matter as
the construction OF manufactory. In
new localities it is necessity; in old To-
calities it is advisable. Tho Northern Pa
cific is investing $500, 900 at Mandan, d. T.,
workmen. Scores OF corporations, firms
and individual employers all over the
country are investing in the same way.
TIE Cleveland CO., Knights have formed
a cooperative clothing company with
capital stock of $40, 600 at SO shares. Mem
bers of the order only will be employed or
allowed to hold shares and no stockholder
shall have more than one vote no matter
how many shares he may hold. The profits
are to be divided into three equal parts,
one-third as dividend to capital, one.
third to the consumer and the other third
will constitute reserve fund to which
will be charged all losses that may occur.
CHEWING THE cUD.
Human Beipgs Who Are Addicted to
Habit Akin to Illumination.